1. Our Oriental heritage, being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning to our own day, with an introduction on ...

A bustling settlement in "Civilization 7," boasting the Coliseum, one of the game's many architectural Wonders. (Courtesy of Firaxis) Harriet Tubman plots my downfall. I’ve built Egypt from a single ...

In previous Civilization games, civs were always tied to a specific leader who was usually, but not always, a noteworthy head of state. Later iterations of the game offered multiple leaders for civs, ...

Explore the Sumerian innovations that birthed civilization! Discover their groundbreaking contributions to law, writing, and ...

This posthumous collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner targets those who don't know much about history. Durant, who died in 1981 at the age of 96, is best known for the multivolume history of ...

Sid Meier's Civilization turned 30 years old in 2021, which might make your bones hurt (it sure hurt mine). Every main entry in the series has had a new designer at the helm, starting with Sid himself ...

Annalee Newitz is the author of “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.” But the historical record shows that reports of the end times always turned out to be wrong. “Barbarians” didn’t ...

American historian Eric H. Cline argues that several modern factors are pushing us closer to a collapse of civilization similar to the one that occurred in the 12th century BC, which led to the ...

Civilization 7 features some of the most significant gameplay changes the long-running strategy series has ever seen. Chief among them is the ability to, for the first time, mix leaders with civs they ...